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cry-laugh

cry-laugh verb: to laugh so much that tears are shed.

Verb

cry-laugh (third-person singular simple present cry-laughs, present participle cry-laughing, simple past and past participle cry-laughed)

  1. (intransitive) To laugh so much that tears are shed.
    • And I could only cry-laugh at a scene in which Fake Roth concedes that the author Roth could well have a trademark case against him, if he chose to pursue it.2023, Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN

Forms of cry-laugh

third-person singular presentcry-laughs
present participlecry-laughing
past participlecry-laughed
pastcry-laughed

Questions about cry-laugh

What does cry-laugh mean?
Cry-laugh means to laugh so much that tears are shed.
What part of speech is cry-laugh?
Cry-laugh is a verb.
What is the past tense of cry-laugh?
The past tense of cry-laugh is cry-laughed.

Words near cry-laugh in the dictionary

  1. cry uncle
  2. cry up
  3. cry wolf
  4. cry-babies
  5. cry-baby
  6. cry-laugh
  7. cry-laughed
  8. cry-laughing
  9. cry-laughs
  10. cry-typing
  11. cryable

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